How To Use That 800 Year Old Melody Technique That's Awesome 👨‍🔬

Howdy doody, Buckaroonies! Let's talk about the power of the magical Fugue Machine and how you can recreate it in any DAW!

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0:00 Howdy
0:51 Where I Got The Idea
1:16 What Is Fugue Machine?
1:53 Before/After Example
3:05 Starting From Scratch
3:48 Stretching The MIDI
4:49 Final Result
5:14 Making It Interesting
6:16 Splitting The Instruments Up
6:45 Adding Probability
7:48 Expanding The Idea
9:50 The Finished Piece
11:48 Closing Thoughts

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[VenusTheory]

What do you think of this technique? 🤔

[rockhills]

This technique reminds me of music cues specifically on medical themed tv shows. Lol I can see how this would benefit a composer who has to churn out material on a weekly basis.

[scottnelle]

I gave it a shot. Spent a total of five minutes with a $5 soft synth and I've just been blissed out looping the chillest 8 measures of music I've ever heard. I love this! Thanks for sharing.

[belverticale]

Yes, this is like a cannon in classical music. I use a similar technique but kind of non MIDI...rendering audio files in Fruity Loops at half tempo, double tempo, pitched up and down an octave, reversed, using different sounds, etc. and then layered up in Acid in its main arrange window...it's my secret weapon for the ambient/classical music I make.

[patcupo]

Very cool and never heard of Fugue Machine. The technique is very old though, like pre-Baroque. It’s called a “Prolation Canon” or sometimes a “Mensuration Canon”. Perfect fit for a DAW, good idea.

[thesundrinker]

I've only been making DAW music for about three months. Of all the videos and how to's this is beyond helpful. Not only was this straight forward and fun as heck to do I got to learn a lot more about my DAW. Will for sure be trying more of this. Thank you so much.

[mind_money_morphology]

2:07 Felt like I just tuned into an episode of House 😭sooo good

[jffnvrr]

Great video! I've loved using my own variations of fugue composition techniques for a long time...here are a couple suggestions you can try: 1) experiment with uneven loop lengths...like 3, 5, 7...since they won't line up with your bars of 4 (for example) they will overlap in more interesting ways over time. 2) When you get further into the arrangement stage, duplicate your basic main loop of all voices, across however long your song is...then start pulling out layers, and let different voices come through to create the various sections of your song.

[GrvMUSICU]

This is my to go to video for writing ideas when i have a beatblock

[craigburton]

It's like you have less control and yet more control at the same time, proper zen business. I like this a lot.

[EricWatkins]

I seriously love your channel more and more as YouTube keeps throwing you on the tracks in front of me. Just wanted to say thanks for all of it. The technical, the synth stuff, the production techniques, the theory, and especially the human aspect of it all with work/life balance. Wishing you the best!

[shpongled]

I came up with this method some time ago and keep forgetting to implement it. Thanks for the reminder, Buckadoodaloo.

[Popbot]

imho not very good for viewership to say that we should be making music instead fo watching youtube. Cause it's 100% true. Thaks for keeping me on track, please do that at the start of every video :)

[realtonaldrum]

3:48 thanks for showing this stretching technique. also made me look up "the reverse" shortcut that I wasn't aware of!

[jayrose]

as someone who makes music solely on an ipad and also someone who has and loves fugue machine, this is a BRILLIANT idea. you get a lot more flexibility and control. thanks for sharing!

[seantrottier]

Ok... This is ridiculously fun. Thank you for this one. So good for ambient kind of sounds, and likely way more.

[forsale]

Free Loop/Arp maker. You never cease to amaze. Thank you very much.

[distantcomets]

Fascinating. This sounds a bit like the score to American Beauty by Thomas Newman...

[Ferna]

When i started making music i did this on a son i had to make for a class intuitively, idk how but even to the point of each layer being played by different instruments and all and to this day making fuges is the technique i love the most

[JayBee]

The possibilities here are limitless. I was going to get off of youtube then said "ah screw it. One more video." To think I may have missed this gem and the inspiration it has given me. Now I just gotta fight the urge to fire up my DAW 6 hours before I have to be at work. Thank You for this video.